Prior to that they didn't need research to tell you that water is wet.
Until freedom is restored...
Posted on 09/14/2012 12:12:34 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The New York City Board of Health approved Mayor Michael Bloomberg's ban on large sugar-sweetened drinks Thursday, as expected. Eight of the board's nine members voted in favor of the ban; one, Dr. Sixto R. Caro, abstained.
"I am still skeptical," Caro told The Associated Press. "This is not comprehensive enough."
The plan, proposed by the mayor in May, calls for a ban on the sale of all sugar-sweetened beverages—soda, sports drinks, energy drinks, sweetened teas, coffees and fruit drinks—in cups larger than 16 ounces at the city's restaurants, food carts, fast-food joints, movie theaters, stadiums and sports arenas. The Barclays Center, the new arena for the Brooklyn Nets opening next week, will comply with Bloomberg's ban, its developer, Bruce Ratner, said Thursday.
The new policy covers any beverage that contains more than 25 calories per 8 ounces--but does not include diet sodas, soft drinks sold in grocery stores and in most convenient stores or those that contain 70 percent or more fruit juice. Beer is also not included in the ban.
"Six months from today," Bloomberg tweeted, "our city will be an even healthier place. NYC's new sugary drink policy is the single biggest step any gov't has taken to curb #obesity. It will help save lives."
Nearly 60 percent of the city's adults and 40 percent of its children are overweight or obese, the mayor's office said, putting them at higher risk for disease.
But Bloomberg's ban has plenty of critics, who say the mayor is ushering in yet another "nanny state" policy.
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Read the whole post. There is a quote from a power-mad chef who apparently thinks that the time of people making their own choices has passed. Satire could not top this stuff!
Nanny State PING!
This is great! The Middle East is melting down and there’s probably a nuclear weapon heading for the Big Apple....but you won’t be able to buy a Slurpee anymore. I am so glad these guys have their priorities in order.
Liberals need this kind of love from government. It makes them feel warm and fuzzy inside. ...Blumturd is preparing New Yorkers for their mandatory diet of soylent green.
(from the inside)....he’s one of those types, that if your a staff member of his, he’ll stop you in the hall and straighten out your tie, or pull up a hankie in your suit breast pocket.....he’s the constant nanny type.sorta of a minnie Monk.
Sell two cups fused together, each holding 12 ounces or whatever.
That government is best which governs least. What a waste of time and resources for the govt to be doing this. I guess the freedom to choose only applies if one wants to terminate one’s child.
Mayor Bloomberg has lived in a ridiculously wealthy bubble for so long, that a part of his brain has gone missing. Or, perhaps he is a genius to anger and distract New Yorkers and, in fact, the rest of us, by diverting the attention to the consumption of Slurpees. Distraction and redirection is an old tool if you want to change the subject.
They can see no reason to put this to a democratic vote and abide to the will of the people? So much for that smart and savy New Yorker image if they fall for this.
Sell two cups fused together, each holding 12 ounces or whatever.
Just go back for additional 12 oz. refills.
Stupid law
So the giant drinks might make us fat and ill and that might lead to an earlier death. So the NY government bans giant drinks.
Abortion however, which is certainly going to lead to an early death for the murdered child, is legal.
I am having trouble understanding this.
Pregnancy IS preventable you knowe. Birth control pills have been around that I know of, since the 60’s. Ms. Fluke wants free condoms, but I think since her boyfriend is getting the “free stuff” he should be expected to provide his own. Or the Ms. Flukes of the U.S. could try to keep their panties on for a change.
It really is a mad, mad world
So the giant drinks might make us fat and ill and that might lead to an earlier death. So the NY government bans giant drinks.
Abortion however, which is certainly going to lead to an early death for the murdered child, is legal.
I am having trouble understanding this.
Pregnancy IS preventable you knowe. Birth control pills have been around that I know of, since the 60’s. Ms. Fluke wants free condoms, but I think since her boyfriend is getting the “free stuff” he should be expected to provide his own. Or the Ms. Flukes of the U.S. could try to keep their panties on for a change.
It really is a mad, mad world
That place is so far from anything I've come to know as remotely "American" that I'm surprised you don't need a passport to travel there.
Don't give them anymore bright ideas............
I want a cheeseburger, onion rings and a large orange drink.
A 73 year old lady is beaten raped and robbed by a thug with a long arrest record in broad daylight in Central Park , tourists are being beaten and robbed, armed thugs are roaming the streets,kids are not getting educated and on and on. Yet this @$$hole mayor has nothing better to do than fight 16 oz. soda, fat content in food,and cigarettes while praising donuts and marijuana. Unbelievable!
They’ll get my soda when they pry it from my cold dead fingers....
I would believe that. Did you hear that from someone who works with him?
Prior to that they didn't need research to tell you that water is wet.
Until freedom is restored...
Ironically they’d need a gun to make me go to NYC.
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